OP-Pohjola Group's Doctoral Thesis Award to Henri Nyberg

Studies on Binary Time Series Models with Applications to Empirical Economics and Finance, the doctoral dissertation by Henri Nyberg, Dr.Soc.Sc., won the first prize in OP-Pohjola Group's Research Foundation's Doctoral Thesis competition. The award is worth 10,000 euros.

In his doctoral dissertation, Nyberg analyses interrelations between macroeconomics and financial markets, especially the dependence of stock-return and interest-rate movements on economic cycles and the effect of the macro economic situation on stock prices. Developing new statistical methods occupies a key role in the dissertation. In fact, its greatest merits lie in the development of methodologies and expert implementation.

The award-winning doctoral dissertation was approved in the spring term 2010 at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, with the grade "eximia cum laude approbatur". It consists of four research reports and their summary.

Based on their own qualifier process, universities entered five doctoral dissertations for the Research Foundation's competition organised for the ninth time in a row. The Board of the OP-Pohjola Group Research Foundation selects the winner.

For more information, please contact:
Matti Huomo, representative of the Research Foundation, tel. 010 252 2232, matti.huomo @ op.fi